1st Edition
The Hidden History of Early Childhood Education
The Hidden History of Early Childhood Education provides an understandable and manageable exploration of the history of early childhood education in the United States. Covering historical, philosophical, and sociological underpinnings that reach from the 1800s to today, contributors explore groups and topics that have traditionally been marginalized or ignored in early childhood education literature. Chapters include topics such as home-schooling, early childhood education in Japanese-American internment camps, James "Jimmy" Hymes, the Eisenhower legacy, Constance Kamii, and African-American leaders of the field. This engaging book examines a range of new primary sources to be shared with the field for the first time, including personal narratives, interviews, and letters. The Hidden History of Early Childhood Education is a valuable resource for every early childhood education scholar, student, and practitioner.
Acknowledgements
Blythe Farb Hinitz
Contributors
Introduction
Blythe Farb Hinitz
Part I: Glimpses of Past Practice
Chapter 2: The Light Within: Glimpses into the Lives and Education of Young Quaker Children (1820-1860)
Susan Anderson Miller
Chapter 3: A History of Homeschooling and Memories of Kindergarten in 1942-1943
Judy Williston
Chapter 4: The Internment and Education of Japanese-American Nursery School Children During World War II: Antecedents and Understanding
Phillip M. Wishon, Margaret B. Shaeffer and Margaret M. Kyger
Chapter 5: A Memoir of an Exemplary Education
Sue Grossman
Chapter 6: Early Care and Education in the 1950s: The Thorny Path When Public Issues Confront Passionately-Held Beliefs
Edna Runnels Ranck
Part II: Portraits of Early Childhood Education Leaders
Chapter 7: Selected African-American Pioneers of Early Childhood Education
W. Jean Simpson and Judith Lynne McConnell-Farmer
Chapter 8: Patty Smith Hill and the Case Study of Betty Kirby
Elizabeth A. Sherwood and Amy Freshwater
Chapter 9: The Impact of Margaret Naumburg and Walden School on Early Childhood Education in the United States
Blythe Farb Hinitz
Chapter 10: Child Champion, Professionals’ Mentor, Hothead— Substance of a ‘Giant in the Field’
Charlotte Jean Anderson
Chapter 11: Playing with Numbers: Constance Kamii and Reinventing Arithmetic in Early Childhood Education
Barbara Beatty
Conclusion
Blythe Farb Hinitz
Appendix A: How the Early Childhood Field Has Honored Its History: NAEYC History Seminar and Our Proud Heritage
Dorothy W. Hewes, Edna R. Ranck and Charlotte Anderson
Index
Biography
Blythe Farb Hinitz is Professor of Early Childhood and Elementary Education at The College of New Jersey.
"The various contributions here offer glimpses of the interesting and uneven history of early childhood education...A constant theme is the ongoing stuggle of early childhood educators to gain respect for young children's abilities to construct knowledge from their own interests and interaction with materials. Re- visioning what education can be and who children are as learners is the challenge. Summing up: Recommended." — S. Sugarman, Emerita, Bennington College, Vermont State Colleges, for CHOICE, December 2013
